Oh come on, that's clearly the same voice actress!
Again we're tasked with defending a small businessman and his jewellers shop, this time so he can launder stolen goods for Freedom. Pretty lame, but it's made up for by a mission where you have to rescue kidnapped sex slaves from the Mall Rats and butcher the Corporation suits making use of them.
Haha, very funny Rockstar, though I think I preferred that era's moral panic about videogames to today's culture war.
Anyway, I stopped playing as Libra after a while, but we'll see more of her next level.
Of course, all the times we the player killed civilians, it was okay, because /we/ had good intentions.
I just wish that the fun of this segment had been distributed a bit more evenly over the rest of Revolution mode, because helping the red-masked insurgents fight it out with the corporation troops is some great wish-fulfillment material.
Finally, you destroy the heart of the corporate presence in the mall, and complete your first level. Next time, we'll be taking to the streets. I won't spend so much time on each of the other areas, but I wanted to clue you in on how the game worked in general. Each level works quite similarly and there are a lot of filler missions, but I'll cover the ones I found interesting.
Somewhat unimaginative, but I guess they can't go too far wrong with a compilation of money shots. Our real reward though is the aforementioned Spanky.
Spanky is well-placed to liberate Chinatown, because as you can see, much of your work here involves the two gangs which populate the area. Much like GTA, each gang in the game is racially segregated and color coded, with the 3rd Street Killas apparently being huge Chicago Bulls fans, because, you know, they're the black gang.
While we're on the subject, Spanky certainly looks the part as a gang member, but I'm not sure I buy him as a community organiser. Indeed, your response to the gang warfare is constrained by the genre, and at one point you even incite greater violence through a staged massacre when Freedom faces the threat of a combined front. This certainly brings to mind the criticisms by Phase Future, and is in fact identical to a mission in GTA III given to you by that game's Donald Trump analogue. (yes, I will cover GTA at some point)
After you derail the truce, the Jade Hill Boyz ask for a meeting and protest they're just trying to protect their neighbourhood, and the Killaz are in league with the Corporation, so you join up with them and destroy the Killaz hideout in Chinatown.
It's hardly a class-concious solution to gang violence, but it's a given that a game like this requires you to turn your brain off a little, and there are still good times to be had, like an escort mission where you're tasked with rescuing a high-ranking Corporation Enforcer accused of embezzlement, the ultimate crime in this world, with the upside being he brings his shotgun and is capable of defending himself.
In return, his intel helps set up a mission where you assassinate a European banker willing to help the Corporation expand overseas, so apparently they're limited to the former United States, which matches the old ATO moniker.
One slightly humorous objective is helping to steal bank records from the Corporation, then blowing up the building to cover your tracks. Unfortunately for Spanky, some glitch with the bomb crate means it wouldn't detonate until it was put down and picked back up.
Most important though are the missions that involve meeting Freedom's leader Marcus Washington. Of course, he has the same character model as every other revolutionary, but the Corporation still manage to track him down and try to kill him constantly. You're tasked with protecting him on his way to the Temple to deliver a speech, but he only gets as far as: [clip] before the Corporation break up the rally and stop us finding out Freedom's ideology. Later on, a traitor sells out the location of the safehouse, and we have to rescue Washington with a teargas grenade launcher, a weapon which only exists in this mission, but presumably was intended to feature more in the original ATO riots plan for the game.